16-letter words containing l, a, v, e
- never-never land — an unreal, imaginary, or ideal state, condition, place, etc.
- new haven colony — a settlement founded in 1638 by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton at Quinnipiac (now New Haven, Conn.).
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
- non-conventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- nuclear envelope — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
- nuncupative will — a will made by the oral and unwritten declaration of the testator, valid only in special circumstances.
- nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
- observationalist — One who relies on empirical observations.
- observationality — The property of being observational.
- off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
- one/a false move — If you say that one false move will cause a disaster, you mean that you or someone else must not make any mistakes because the situation is so difficult or dangerous.
- orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
- over-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- over-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- over-explanation — the act or process of explaining.
- over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
- over-rationalize — to remove unreasonable elements from.
- over-sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
- overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
- overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
- overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
- overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- overexploitation — use or utilization, especially for profit: the exploitation of newly discovered oil fields.
- overhead railway — elevated railroad.
- parole violation — an illegal act or offence that breaches the conditions of a prisoner's parole
- peasants' revolt — the first great popular rebellion in English history (1381), caused by the imposition of an unpopular poll tax: it lasted less than a month and failed as a social revolution
- pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
- plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
- polyvinyl acetal — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the condensation of an aldehyde with polyvinyl alcohol.
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
- private-line car — a freight car owned by a company other than a railroad but operated over the tracks of railroads.
- privileged altar — an altar at which a plenary indulgence for a departed soul may be granted upon celebration of a Mass.
- proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
- projective plane — (mathematics) The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
- pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- quasi-equivalent — equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
- radiation levels — the levels of the emission or transfer of radiant energy or the levels of the particles emitted in the transfer of radiant energy, esp the particles and gamma rays emitted in nuclear decay
- radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
- rear-wheel drive — a layout in motor vehicles which places the engine at the front and the driven wheels at the rear
- receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date